Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

In this activity, you will create a magical box to help your child learn her letter sounds. Here's how to play the Abracadabra learning game!

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.

As your child plays photographer, snapping pictures around the yard, he'll also be practicing recognizing letter sounds, which will help him learn to read.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Here's an adorable kindergarten refrigerator magnet that celebrates the glories of the letter "B" and benefits your early reader.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

Create your own set of alphabet blocks: you can make just a few or all 26.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.